So I've hit a slight roadbump. I sent my Greddy T78 turbo out for a rebuild as it started smoking last fall. Prior to that, it had never made great power and was laggy (my car came with the kit and a blown engine), I had put a new motor in and never rebuilt the turbo or even took it apart. I sent it off for a rebuild and this is what is wrong with it:
Bad seals, I knew that, because oil was leaking.
Useless turbine wheel, I was hoping this wouldnt be the case.
The cost for a rebuild quickly escallated, couldn't even find a turbine wheel/shaft in the country. There was one in Japan the rebuild shop could get for $415 (the turbo is no longer in production), they showed me the quote straight from the supplier and were going to give it to me at cost. So that put the rebuild cost to around $900. Way too much. The shop was Midwest Turbo Connection. Even though I can't vouche for their work, their customer service was excellent, and got back to me extremely quick with multiple updates while they were trying to track down the wheel, and also sent tons of pics for me. Customer service like that is hard to find.
So I've been shopping around, and the only thing I could find that's roughly the same size and decently price is a BW S366. So I'm going to try to pick one up next week. I couldn't even find anything used for decent price
03-31-2011, 08:27 PM
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